How many triples will Jose Reyes? How many Putz jerseys will be sold? Who is the tortoise and who is the hare? What will Gary Sheffield’s impact be? What does Bobby Seay have to do with anything? Read on to see Joe’s wild and wacky Mets predictions.
Who will win the Cy Young Award? The MVP? The batting title? Rookie of the Year? Will the Cubs run away with Central? Which Francisco will be the saves leader, Rodriguez or Cordero? Can Manny carry the Dodgers over a full season? What team will surprise everyone? Read and argue with Joe’s predictions, none of which are guaranteed.
Third base is the first position in the infield where the Mets clearly have the best player in the National League (for fantasy baseball purposes). I have nothing remotely witty to add to that, so let’s get to the rankings… Third Base Rankings – National League David Wright (.315-35-140) – With Reyes stealing more bases … Read more
“Shortstop” is the name of a greasy spoon diner right under the last stop of 1/9 train in Riverdale – whatever you order, keep it greasy and order seconds. Cheese fries are highly recommended, if I remember correctly. “Shortstop” is also where the NL East is dominating the positional rankings in fantasy baseball: Shortstop Rankings … Read more
When last we met, I was telling you that Albert Pujols was the best NL first baseman and you weren’t surprised. But you were probably surprised that I think two of the top 5 first basemen in the NL East aren’t even first basemen. Moving along… Second Base Rankings – National League Chase Utley .345-20-95 … Read more
Albert Pujols is a no-brainer, but how does the rest of the first-base pool shake out? John Fitzgerald takes you through the options, in between bites of his burrito.
Hi. My name is John. I enjoy eating pizza and yelling at parked cars. Joe asked me to step in here and write something, so here goes… I’m going to rank the top 5 players at each position in the NL and the top 5 in the NL East. These offensive rankings are both for … Read more
Every once in a while — particularly in the offseason — it’s fun to look back at what we discussed here and see how things panned out.
I took a look back to posts from October and November 2007, and found some interesting “predictions” and analyses.
On the Mark
Mike Sweeney seemed to me to be a good pickup for the Mets. I thought
